Friedhelm Döhl is a German

Germany

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 composer and professor of music

Music

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Döhl studied composition

Musical composition

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 with Wolfgang Fortner

Wolfgang Fortner

Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.-Life:Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents - both singers - Fortner very early on had intense contact with music...

 and piano

Piano

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 with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

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, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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 and Göttingen. In 1966 he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Anton Webern

Anton Webern

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From 1964 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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. There he founded the Studio for New Music. From 1969 to 1974 he was a professor at the Musicology Institute of the Free University of Berlin

Free University of Berlin

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, where he was a member of New Music Berlin. In 1974 he was appointed director of the Music Academy of Basel, and worked there until 1982. This period saw the founding of the studios there for electronic music, non-European music, music and theater. In the years from 1980 to 1983 he was president of the German section of the International Society for Contemporary Music

International Society for Contemporary Music

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. During his tenure came the founding of the Ensemble Modern

Ensemble Modern

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Since 1982 he has been professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck

Lübeck

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, and he became its director in 1991. At Lübeck he introduced a new series of events (Forum of Young Composers, New Music Workshop). In 1992, he initiated the Lübeck Brahms Festival. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg

Hamburg

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. He was artistic director for the concert series Musica Viva / Encounters, in Reinbek

Reinbek

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, from 1986 to 1988, and served in a similar capacity for the 1987 NDR Festival 'The New Factory,' in Lübeck.

He has composed works for solo instruments, chamber groups

Chamber music

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, voice

Voice

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, orchestra

Orchestra

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, and live electronics

Electroacoustic music

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